• "Few things I've ever read have done a better job of getting at the complexity of the climate fight."

    Bill McKibben, Author of The End of Nature

  • “Finally, a climate book that feels new and different!"

    Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo

  • “Had me belly laughing, reflecting deeply, and then rubbing goosebumps off my arms…Raw, honest, and tapping into the soul of a generation, this book should be required reading for students - and folks of all ages - around the world.”

    Canyon Woodward, Author of Dirt Road Revival

  • “The profound conversation that has been missing from the climate justice movement...This is necessary reading for anyone who cares about our planet because it has the potential to open minds and hearts.”

    Crysta Bloom, Storyteller and Land Activist at Soulfire Farm

  • "A compelling, deeply honest look at the hard work involved in moving away from fossil fuels."

    Leah Stokes, Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara

  • "What a ride—gritty and intricate and important."

    Jim Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

  • “Smart, literate and profoundly honest.”

    Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School

  • “A richly textured and deeply personal account of intertwined lives, this book shows us environmentalism’s roots in local histories, habits, and aspirations. It calls on us to meet this moment with openness, passion, and humility.”

    Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • “Uncannily timely...should be required reading for every incoming college freshman.”

    Nithya Ramanathan, CEO and Co-founder, Nexleaf Analytics

  • “Linked by conversations, divided by mutual frustrations, bound by moments of joy.”

    Evan Hepler-Smith, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University

  • “With insight, honesty, and curiosity, Driver and Osborn offer a clear inroad to a larger conversation about how higher education can meaningfully contribute to a more equitable energy future. This is required reading for students, educators, university presidents, and concerned citizens alike.”

    Dr. Ana Isabel Keilson, Co-Executive Director and co-Founder, Gull Island Institute

  • "Climate work is relational work. This book shows why we must not go it alone—and what it takes to go it together. Eve and Tom's interwoven story offers insight and inspiration for anyone trying to build a better we."

    Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, Author of All We Can Save and Drawdown, TIME “15 women who will save the world”

  • “Speaks across audiences and generations to offer a beautiful story of friendship and the understanding that comes from respect and care. It is critical to tell stories like these that offer sympathy in the face of the confusing nature of climate work while also challenging Western notions of ‘successful’ climate advocacy.”

    Aja Two Crows, Center for Earth Ethics

  • “This book is a dialog between two brilliantly smart young friends, raised on different continents, who are both passionately committed to climate solutions. The issue is they both suspect the other's approach isn't just ineffective, but blatantly counterproductive. It's a rare pleasure to witness two such capable spokespeople, who represent totally different perspectives, grapple with ideas, values and contradictions and emerge with deeper understanding.”

    Kathy Hannun, Founder of Dandelion Energy

  • "This book is essential reading.”

    Kennedy Odede, TIME100 Most Influential People of 2024. Founder & CEO, SHOFCO. New York Times best-selling author of Find Me Unafraid: Love, Hope, and Loss in an African Slum

  • “A courageous travelogue offering tales from the journey to climate justice. The core wisdom at the heart of their shared narrative, is that the road to economic transformation passes through self-awareness, humility, deep listening, and a commitment to building a better world together.”

    Bracken Hendricks, co-founder of Working Power & Evergreen Action

  • “Eve and Tom have written a work that feels, truly, in its own genre…It’s rare to see a book that actually tackles competing conceptions of political economy in good faith—and does so not only with intellectual sophistication, but with interpersonal complexity…How they began to resolve those fractures touched me even further: perhaps we can all better learn that laughter and tenderness can serve as balms to our mutually antagonistic political landscape. This book will prove a useful gem to those working through what they believe in order to make another world possible for us all.”

    Tawanda Mulalu, Author of Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die

  • "Such a unique book. Eve and Tom breathe new life and meaning into the familiar mantras 'the personal is the political' and 'think globally, act locally.' At a time when young people are caricatured for speaking hard truths about the world they have inherited, this book does justice to the complicated politics of social change in our troubled times and the powerful relationships that are always at the core. Count me in!"

    Dr. Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University

  • "Anyone who hopes to make a difference will be inspired by the story of Eve Driver and Tom Osborn’s honest, courageous friendship. "

    Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

  • “An urgent guide in an era of rampant discord, this book serves as a blueprint for building coalitions dedicated to a healthier society, whether in climate justice or other vital movements…illustrating the vast potentials of friendship that reach beyond sentimentalism. Testimonies such as Eve and Tom’s are invaluable as we strive to reduce harm ecologically, politically and interpersonally.”

    Sol Street, Global social impact strategist and Co-founder of The Meteor, SOL STREET

  • “This book's double discovery—that emotionally driven protest is not enough to produce change, and that practical proposals can fail if they don't affect emotions and behavior—is fueled by each writer who refuses to ignore the other. Here is an eloquent lesson about personal ties as the foundation for admirable human advances, an inspiration to address complex problems, and to revive democratic culture.”

    Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University

  • "A fantastic window into the socio-cultural complexities of confronting climate change in the 21st Century, told through a narrative conversation between two young university students. From the villages of Kenya to the metropolis of Boston, and through sometimes trying friendship, Eve Driver and Tom Osborn teach us about what it means to be a climate-informed citizen in this complicated world."

    Ryan M. Katz-Rosene, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Political Studies

  • "Both conversational and informative, Tom and Eve's recollections reveal how even the staunchest of opinions can be changed and a consensus achieved through discussion, empathy, and information sharing, thereby achieving goals that are vital for humanity."

    Erin Britton, San Francisco Book Review

What We Can’t Burn

Eve Driver & Tom Osborn
Westwood Press

When they met as juniors in college, Kenyan clean energy entrepreneur Tom Osborn and American climate writer Eve Driver did not get along. While a trip to Kenya over winter break sparked an unlikely friendship, it was tested back on campus amid their college’s fossil fuel divestment campaign — which Eve joined, and Tom opposed. In fresh voices that are raw, funny, and lyrical, the two take turns telling the story of their rocky but transformative friendship, which gripped and changed both of their minds. The result is a poignant story of coming of age in a generation divided about how to save itself, and a testament to the power of humor and dialogue to bridge divides in the global climate movement.